RAR Mental Health Counseling provides a personalized, compassionate and integrative approach to therapy where healing and growth are at the heart of everything we do.
In-Person in NYC • Telehealth Throughout NY & NJ
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Navigate towards Healing, Connection & Empowerment
Our counseling sessions are more than a mere therapeutic encounter—they are a sanctuary of trust, growth, and healing. Whether you’re facing a specific issue or seeking personal development, this space is yours to be authentic, vulnerable, and unapologetically yourself. With open hearts and minds, we welcome you to embark on this remarkable journey of self-exploration and empowerment.
Anxiety
Depression
Low Self-Esteem
Trauma
Cultural Identity
Stress
Dating & Relationships
Life Transitions
Family Conflict
Academic, Work & Career Pressures
Grief & Loss
Social Difficulties
Maternal Mental Health
Parenting Struggles
Procrastination & Perfectionism
How It Works
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Feel Like You Again
Enjoy Life Again
We offer individual counseling, couples counseling, family counseling, EMDR therapy, and more.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
Helps you spot the connection between how you think, feel, and act, so you can shift patterns that aren’t working.
Psychodynamic Therapy
Explores how your past, including early relationships and experiences, shapes the way you show up in your life today.
Motivational Interviewing
A collaborative conversation that helps you work through ambivalence and find your own reasons to change.
Trauma-Informed Therapy
Approaches your healing with an understanding that past trauma affects how you think, feel, and cope, and meets you there without judgment.
AANHPI Counseling & BIPOC Therapy
Therapy that centers your cultural identity, lived experience, and the specific stressors that come with navigating race in America.
Eye Movement Desensitization & Reprocessing (EMDR)
Uses guided eye movements to help your brain reprocess painful memories so they lose their grip on you.
Narrative Therapy
Helps you separate who you are from the problems you’re facing, and rewrite the story you’ve been telling about yourself.
Person Centered Therapy
Built on the belief that you’re the expert on your own life, with a therapist who follows your lead with genuine curiosity and no agenda.
Integrative Therapy
Draws from multiple approaches to build something that actually fits you, rather than forcing you into one method.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Teaches you to make room for difficult thoughts and feelings without letting them run the show, so you can focus on what actually matters to you.
Solution Focused Brief Therapy
Keeps the focus on where you want to go and what’s already working, rather than spending most of the time on what went wrong.
Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT)
Builds concrete skills for managing intense emotions, improving relationships, and staying grounded when things feel out of control.
Testimonials
“I’ve really enjoyed my last two years working with Raya as a therapist- she asks great questions, helps me develop skills in trusting myself and my own intuition, and is a great listener as well. I’ve particularly seen big changes and growth in my relationship with family as a direct result of our sessions together, and I would recommend her to anyone seeking to make any kind of change in their life, big or small. I also appreciate the way in which she is flexible with our meeting schedule and cadence, it’s great to be able to meet more or less often depending on life’s ever-changing needs. Lastly, it’s important to me to have a therapist that I feel truly cares about my progress and growth, and Raya demonstrates each week how invested she is in me as a client by remembering all kinds of small details and previous situations that I’ve told her about, sometimes weeks or even months ago. This makes me feel like she truly is listening and absorbing all the things I share, is in the arena with me, and I can work with her to piece together patterns and connections from different parts of my life.”
“I have worked with Raya and having her as a therapist has been—without exaggeration—life-changing. She has been a stable source of support helping me navigate anxiety, trauma, ADHD, perfectionism, life transitions, and everything in between. She is an exceptional listener, asks questions that make me stop in my tracks and think, and helps me develop coping skills particularly for anxiety. She is also extremely perceptive, remembers details I’ve shared, and is able to call out patterns that I might have missed. I think what sets Raya apart is that at the end of each session, she actually takes the time to summarize what she hears is the “issue” I’m facing, and recommends a path forward for the week. This is such a valuable piece of therapy that I didn’t realize I was missing until I started working with Raya. Sessions with her feel comfortable yet invigorating—it often feels like we are a team working together. There’s nothing like walking away from a session feeling like we reached an epiphany or unlocked a new way of perceiving an issue. Raya is very flexible and will do everything she can to work with your schedule. I’m so thrilled to continue my therapy journey with her.”
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Supporting individuals, couples, and families as they navigate their paths towards healing, connection, and empowerment.
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90 Broad Street, Suite 227
NY, NY 10004